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Posted on 11/10/2006 6:29:02 PM PST by elkfersupper
To make money, you need a special title …
Besides, how may taxi drivers would sit in a bar (and not drink), waiting for their charge to get drunk enough to leave and then escort them home? Ain’t gana happen. Need a special group, someone willing to wait it out … to insure them a ride home.
To answer your next protest … call a cab. Ever try to get a cab late a night when you are drunk?
Worked my way though three years of collage as a taxi driver, this is a concept that could work.
Maybe local pub owners (out of a sense of self-preservation) could create what the WWII French Army called "de-ethalyzation rooms", where patrons could lock themselves in, but would have to blow a certain BAC, and pass a hand-eye coordination test, to get out.
Hell. Lets make it: "If you think about drinking and driving you are under arrest!"
It's easy! Taxi company's bread and butter are late-night drunks. I know, I used to own a bar and grill.
Definitely one for the FR Hall of Fame! Now I have to clean up the coke and bits of cheese sandwich I sprayed all over my keyboard. :-(
Keep in mind the entire (supposed) purpose of DUI's. It is to prevent folks from driving poorly.
Now what about old folks who forgot their glasses, Or people with the flu? They are both not driving as good as they can.
So what is the best solution? Pretty simple, actually. In those vans cops have with portable breathalizers, fit them with something else.
A driving simulator. With virtual cones, red lights, green lights, stop signs, whatever.
If anyone is suspected of driving poorly, whether sober or not, put them in it, and if they fail, ticket them.
That includes folks stone cold sober, healthy, with perfect eyesight. I know many who should never be driving.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
The bartender gives him one. The guy from Schlitz says, "Give me 'The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous'."
He gets it. The guy from Guinness sits down and says, "Give me a Coke."
The bartender is a little taken aback, but gives him what he ordered. The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask, "Why aren't you drinking a Guinness?"
The Guinness president replies, "Well, if you guys aren't drinking beer, neither will I."
I don't suppose there's any evidence that driving at .05 is driving impaired? Not that it matters.
Really, the evidence doesn't even establish that the .08 standard was an improvement over .10. The GAO looked at the evidence at the time the federal government was making the change and said so. In fact, DWI deaths increased after the standard was lowered after declining for years.
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Actually, anything over .00 has some impairment involved.
Technically, yes.
If they're really concerned about highway safety they should lower the speed limit to 20mph.
Technically.
Decreasing the speed to 20 would be extremely dangerous as well, due to closing rates...
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